A New Look

Now that it is finally feeling like fall I'm celebrating with a new seaonal template. Happy November everyone!

Baby steps, er scoots

Baby Day is getting really close to crawling. She already rolls to her destinations and can put her self on her belly and use her arms to spin herself in the direction she wants. Now she is doing the "inch worm" too. She pulls her knees up under herself and pushes her self forward like a little worm. She hasn't quite figure out how to coordinate this move with her arms yet, but at the rate she's learning I bet it won't be long before she is crawling all over the place. Looks like we may be baby proofing earlier than planned. Yikes.
She also communicates much more now. She leans and reaches for things she wants. Yesterday I was holding her in church and she was reaching for her car seat. Day NEVER wants to sit in there unless she has too but I figured since she asked I should give it a shot. Turns out it was exactly what she wanted. She sat in her seat and happily chewed on Sophie for a while. I love watching peoples faces light up when she reaches for them and wants them to hold her. There is just something so heart warming when a baby chooses you to hold them. Day seems to like having new people hold her, I think she's pretty friendly for a baby :)
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Singing Baby

Baby Day has really found her voice. She has been constantly serenading me all weekend. Here is her latest number. What do you think? Will Simon send her to Hollywood?

First Trick-or-Treating = FAIL

I had high expectations for Halloween this year. I LOVE trick-or-treating and Halloween in general so I was really looking forward to taking Day out for her first trick-or-treat experience. I should have known it is never that simple. I bought her a super cute little piggie costume (since we call her our little pig) and I was a farmer. We test drove her costume the day it came and she seemed to not have a problem with it, but today was another story. We never even made it to the first house. It was like a stage 5 melt down. Poor kid. We quickly abandoned our trick-or-treating mission and spent the next hour trying to console our poor little squealing pig. The night was still nice though. We saw some friends, J still got to go out and watch his Yankees play, and I still got plenty of Halloween candy to munch on while watching Twilight. Here are a few pics we took before the great melt down of 09'.
Happy Halloween!

Lucky Lady

I have been on a super lucky streak lately. Last week I called into a local radio station and won tickets to a sneak preview premiere of New Moon for 18th (two days before is opens). Score 1! If you know me I'm sure you could imagine the high pitched squeals that San Diego radio listeners had to hear when I won.

Then today I won a contest at work that just scored me the BEST SEATS EVER at a Chargers home game vs the Eagles. Score 2! I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to make it to a game this year, my current budget what it is, but luck (a lot of hard work) has won me the best seats I've ever had. It's okay you can be jealous :)

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

J and I both grew up going to Church every Sunday with our families. While I know as a kid I whined and cried and begged to stay home some Sunday’s and I am forever grateful that my parents never gave in and always made me go. I have so many fond memories of part of my life. Singing with the choir, getting donuts (and some times a smidge of coffee as a kid), running playing tag with my siblings while my parents caught up with friends. Of course my brother and sister and I were perceptually in trouble for goofing off and not paying attention during mass (I’d like to say it got better as we got older, but to this day my Dad will catch me inspecting my nails during a sermon and give me an elbow and disapproving look), but we managed to learn a few there too. But the best part of memories of church is that each one had a very central theme of family. It was a guaranteed few hours a week with all of five of us doing the same activity and it made us closer. Over time though, I have come to realize that the sense of family I get from going to church is more than just bonding with my own family, it’s belonging to another family too, the church. The people are what make a church. It’s so amazing to gather so many different people but all be bonded by the same morals and values. It’s dynamic but solid, but most of all it is pure good.
Sadly, over the past few years I have seriously drifted from the church. I stopped volunteering in ministries, I attended mass less and less, and in the past 2 years I have only walked through those doors a handful of times. But now I have a new reason to start going regularly and it has me more motivated than ever to make church a weekly (not yearly) event again, my beautiful baby girl. I want baby Day to have the same amazing experiences that I had. I want her to run around the gardens with her face covered in donut glaze. I want her to hold our hands during the Lord ’s Prayer and give a little extra squeeze a the end. I want her to look forward to meeting new faces when she gives the sign of peace. I want to her to listen to the choir and be awed by the sense of God in the room. I want her to hear the Gospels and sermons and when faced with a bully at school learn to love them instead of fear them. I want her to ask questions, and know what she believes in and not just believe what she knows. I want her to know a family at church that she can trust and depend on when she needs it. I don’t want to force religion on my daughter but I want her to have the opportunity to experience it and love it like I did. You can have faith without church, but I feel that I have been seriously cheating myself the past few years by leaving church out.
Last Sunday my mom and I took baby Day to church for the first time. Of course she talked when everyone else was quiet and we spent most of the time trying to appease her in the cry room, but it was still awesome. She loved the music and all the faces and the other babies there. When everyone clapped she looked a little surprise but proud. I think she thought everyone was clapping for her, which makes sense because the only time she hears people clapping is when she does something cute. J and I are really excited to make church apart of our lives again, and I’m really looking forward to the donuts ;)

4 month check up

Day had her 4 month check up today. It was a little late but since we are doing the Dr. Sears vaccine schedule we are just a few days behind. Here are baby Day's latest stats:
Weight: 14.0 lbs - 50%
Height: 24.0 inches - 50%
Head: 16 (I forget if that is inches or cm) - 50%

Basically she is just perfect <3
The doctor gave us the go ahead to start rice cereal and to move on to fruits and veggies at 6 months once she gives us the green light at the next check up. I initially wanted to wait as long as possible to start solids but I think Day is ready. She has great head control and eats so much that I can barely keep up with her and she is showing real interest in food. Whenever J and I are eating is stares at our food, reaches for it, and even fusses a bit to try and get some. I think we will try cereal for the first time this weekend and see how she does. Plus, a bit selfishly, it would be nice for her to sleep a bit longer at night. Now she wakes up 2-3 times between 1am and 6am to eat. I think if she had a little more substance in her belly she could sleep a little longer.
The best news from the check up though was that Day handled her shots like a champ again. She took the oral one pretty quickly, only making a few faces, but when they gave her the shot in her leg her eyes got very big and she started to cry. I just smiled at her and said "you're okay, all done now!" And by the time I could finish the words she had stopped crying and was playing with my purse again. She's a tough little baby girl. I'm so happy to see her happy and healthy.
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